Yes, XGBoost is cool, but have you heard of CatBoost?

If you've worked as a data scientist, competed in Kaggle competitions, or even browsed data science articles on the internet, there's a high chance that you've heard of XGBoost. Even today, it is often the go-to algorithm for many Kagglers and data scientists working on general machine learning tasks. While XGBoost is popular for good reasons, it does have some limitations, which I mentioned in my article below. Odds are, you've probably heard of XGBoost, have you ever heard of CatBoost? CatBoost is another open-source gradient boosting library that was created by researchers at Yandex.